1,001 Uncommon uses for Common weapons (or Enemies) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Sacred_Dreams

10-31-05, 12:03 PM
Hello, and welcome to 1,001 Uncommon uses for Common Weapons thread! In this thread I have a few rules
1. No foul language
2. No flaming
3. No double posting of uses
4. Have fun!

To begin I will say:
1. Using a bastard sword as a rotissourie spit.

2. Using a quarterstaff as a polevault.


3. Making shurikens posterboard tacks (i recommend this if you're hunted by evil things or vice versa)

4. Use a heavy mace as a meat tenderizer, even if the meat is still alive :devil:
jakefm2377

10-31-05, 12:29 PM
5) trident as a coat rack (stick the shaft in the gound straight up)

6) dagger as a toothpick

7) whip as a jump rope or if you want to add a degree of diffuctly use a spiked chain
anshar

10-31-05, 12:40 PM
8. Use the hollowed-out skull of a dragon to haul it's treasure out of it's lair. (I had a couple of PCs actually do this once. It was so unexpected I just had to allow it.)
Outla

10-31-05, 06:34 PM
tying a rope to a tower shield can make it a sled, or a stretcher.

a tower shield set on top of something might make a good picnic table.

a character with craft (cooking) might use a shield over a fire to bake flatbread or tortillas, or use it as a wok.

a tower shield can be used for diving. when it's on your arm it gives -20 to swim checks, you sink like a stone, but when you loosen it from your arm it's a large wooden object so it gives you a bonus to swim checks -- you can float back to the surface.

yeah, those are shields... but shields can be weapons too.
rbrt_Spade

10-31-05, 06:57 PM
9-you can build a house of quarterstaffs(thier free :D )
10-spears can be used for many things-spearing and cooking the bbeg when your locked in a room as a spit
Chimera245

10-31-05, 07:34 PM
A Scroll of Prestidigitation (or any other near-useless spell)
If you're playing d20 Modern instead of D&D, you could sell it to a museum for a couple hundred dollars easy.

Cast Grease on one side of a hill, and the children will have hours of fun.

Using Scry to peek into the girls' locker room.

Cast Fireball straight up into the air at night for fireworks.
Herald@Large

10-31-05, 08:09 PM
19. Cloak or blanket + 2 spear shafts or 10' poles or quarterstaves = a stretcher.
20. Silver pieces = improvised sling bullets vs lycanthropes.
21. Iron spikes = diversion for a rust monster.
Slumbersigh

10-31-05, 08:58 PM
An automobile can be a weapon in the wrong hands.
Bane

10-31-05, 10:30 PM
Vial of acid - Lockpick
Adamantine Heavy Flail - Door opener
Summoned animals - Trapfinders
Orayn, Elvish Blademaster

10-31-05, 11:16 PM
DnD doesn't have towels as we know them, but any towel-like tool is the most useful thing possible. They can be blankets, air filters, sails, weapons, tents, stretchers, bandages, gloves, flags, or capes. You can always dry yourself off with them, but that's no fun. :D
Novacat

10-31-05, 11:20 PM
Just to mention a couple things:
tying a rope to a tower shield can make it a sled, or a stretcher.
In at least one military which used tower shields in their armies, they were often used as stretchers. The Roman soldiers were instructed to come back with their shields, or in them. Also:
a tower shield can be used for diving. when it's on your arm it gives -20 to swim checks, you sink like a stone, but when you loosen it from your arm it's a large wooden object so it gives you a bonus to swim checks -- you can float back to the surface.
Generally speaking, tower shields have sufficient metal on them to be heavier than the water they displace, or at least not light enough to carry a person to the surface. Back to weapons, though.

Net as a pom-pom.

Scythe to harvest wheat (omg thats crazy talk!!)

Siangham as a nose-stud (the weird looks are just because they're jealous)

In a game I ran, a character who was in prison tried to hide his money in his sap (he didn't have many coins), and hide that up his butt. I stared blankly for a few minutes. I then rolled a 10% chance that the guards would walk by at just that moment. Let's just say that the guards probably had the same initial reaction that I did.
Novacat

10-31-05, 11:22 PM
20. Silver pieces = improvised sling bullets vs lycanthropes.
Super excellent idea. I had never thought of that. Guess who's characters will start carrying their money in silver...
The Vorpal Tribble

10-31-05, 11:32 PM
Unfortunately its only alchemical silver that'll work on them. I once tried to feed a werewolf a hunk of meat with a silver coin stuffed inside and had this pointed out to me :(
Novacat

11-01-05, 05:31 PM
This has potential to be a very amusing post, so I'll bump it.
Novacat

11-01-05, 07:56 PM
Unfortunately its only alchemical silver that'll work on them. I once tried to feed a werewolf a hunk of meat with a silver coin stuffed inside and had this pointed out to me :(
Um... where'd you read that? I looked up Lycanthopes in the Monster Manual, and no where did it say that the silver MUST be alchemical silver. My understanding is that real silver is generally too soft to use as a weapon, so alchemical silver is used as a substitute. Not to mention that the traditional werewolf legends say silver, not alchemical silver.
Thanqol

11-02-05, 03:49 AM
Summoned animals - Trapfinders

That is NOT uncommon.
Bane

11-02-05, 09:51 AM
Good point. How about my Tiefling Wizard's slightly different take on it?

Mind controlled peasants - Trapfinders.
:D
Thanqol

11-02-05, 05:24 PM
Good point. How about my Tiefling Wizard's slightly different take on it?

Mind controlled peasants - Trapfinders.
:D

*Ebil applause* :D
Titan W

11-02-05, 06:15 PM
Rogue's +1 daggers as tent pegs...

Fortress made of a dragon's husk, just gut, carve off the meat, and use the bones for supports, like most reptile skin I doubt it would decompose quickly, and that's what med/repair is for; why bother to move the horde? make it your home!

((Note: after other dragons notice the opening and start trying to get in you can expand your fortess even more, and get Exp.))

Sword and mallet as a bard insturment.

Baleful polymorph large enemy into rabbit, place in bag of holding, drop that into portable hole for m a distance. (Okay that's not so unusual)
gnomeman

11-02-05, 08:46 PM
If a female PC or NPC is having problem with giving birth, go fetch a giant (This is best used with a net)

PC gets the good king wife pregnant, use Vampiric touch! (sick, i know)

Use annoying halfing rogue as decoy for BEBG before running like scared little girls (Best performed by meen barbarian)

Use hold person on BEBG and use permanency, WALAH! You've got yourself a nice statue/ coat rack.
Azual

11-02-05, 09:07 PM
DnD doesn't have towels as we know them, but any towel-like tool is the most useful thing possible. They can be blankets, air filters, sails, weapons, tents, stretchers, bandages, gloves, flags, or capes. You can always dry yourself off with them, but that's no fun. :D

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Towels played an iconic role in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGG). They are described as the most "massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." The fictitious time/space traveller and Guide Researcher Ford Prefect uses the idiom "a frood who really knows where his towel is" to mean someone generally alert and aware.

In the HHGG universe, a hitchhiker who carries a towel can always find a ride, because if someone is carrying a towel, it is assumed by a strag (however illogically) that they also have a toothbrush, a bathroom kit, shower shoes, hair nets, maps, a toolbox, tickets to the opera, finely lapped silicone wafers, a set of encyclopedias, an astonishing array of credit cards, travellers checks, etc. For this reason, hitchhikers were directed by the Guide to always carry a towel to maintain the appearance that they would make a good guest.

In addition, a towel can be used as a hammock, a blanket, or a cape. The corners of the towel can be soaked in vitamins, and useful bits of wire can be woven into the towel. The corners of a towel can also be tied together to make a bag. If wet, the towel can even be used in mêlée combat. You can use it to hide from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous).

courtesy of Wikipedia! :D
Wildonion

11-02-05, 09:34 PM
While on the subject of useful towls (I know this is Star Wars but I figured I would post it) my friends and I are confident we can create 1000 uses for the All Temperature Cloak.

We have rigged it with a breathalizer to keep a guy KO'ed,
blocked security cameras,
used them as slings (in both senses of the word medically and in combat),
we tied a guy up with one,
then used some tied together to slip out a window.

All this and we are still only level 4.
Sacred_Dreams

11-03-05, 11:59 AM
I would like you all to number the uses so we dont get confused on what number we are on.
Sorry I should've put that as a rule. Now it is!
Parrex

11-03-05, 12:02 PM
Keep in mind that an empty bag of flour torn apart on two edges is essentially a towel :)
Sacred_Dreams

11-16-05, 01:21 PM
Use a blackguard as a batteringram (or as a living projectile from a siege weapon!)
Grab a kobold and use him/her as a shield, corpse or not!
Use a dagger as a toothpick(i dont recommend this)
Use a javelin for a rotissurie spit
Congrats to all who have posted
Parrex

11-18-05, 12:27 PM
59. Kris Blade as a shaving razor.

60. Spiked Chain + Use Rope Check = Hook Shot

61. Catapult + Feather Fall = One way fly spell, with incredible speed.

62. Repair a dungeon, make it your Base of Operations (actually did this)

63. Clay jug + Net + Rope + Hook + Pitons + Knife + Alchemists Fire/Acid Flasks/Thunderstones, deadly falling trap.

64. Get loadstone, put in sling, cast remove curse, hit a bad guy with it and halve their speed, repeat, Disarm them of their ranged weapons, cast silence, and run around laughing as he tries to chase you at 2.5' move speed.

65. Are werewolf jaws still poisonous after they die?

66. Any number of monster heads can be used as warding totems around your campsite.

67. What happens when you toss a thunderstone in a campfire?
Sacred_Dreams

11-21-05, 12:00 PM
67(ans). Something I tried. DM said that it exploded and we were all stunned for 5 rounds
68.Using a catapult to clean your yard
69.Longbow for a drying rack
70.(idea #60)Hookshot for a whip
COngratz to you all!
Pieh

11-21-05, 12:33 PM
71. Use a tall Warforged as a ladder.
72. Use a Longbow as a Musical Intstrument.
73. Portable Hole + Prestidigitation = Vaccum Cleaner.
74. Tanglefoot Bag as a tube of Glue.
75. Any piercing weapon could make a toothpick but it taken a bludgeoning wepon to wake someone up... :D
phoenixshard

11-21-05, 01:28 PM
I remember an article like this in an old Dragon magazine. Entertaining post so far. :D
Prak, the Mad

11-21-05, 03:20 PM
Vial of acid - Lockpick
Adamantine Heavy Flail - Door opener
Summoned animals - Trapfinders
reminds me of the fosters comercials...




*rogue-ish character slams a vial of green liquid into a lock*
"Lock pick. Foster's, Australian for Beer"
Andi1

04-20-06, 04:38 AM
76. The bdoy of a dead demon as finacial support (we got 1000gm for it... sad...)
forrestfire15

04-20-06, 02:22 PM
congrats for your funny ideas :)
forrestfire15

04-20-06, 02:27 PM
77. dwarven waraxe to split loge.

78. mage hand to entertain children.

79. ray of frost as numbing agent

80. spears/tridents/javelins to roast marshmallows

81. flaming sphere as cooking oven

82. decanters of endless water as jetpack
forrestfire15

04-20-06, 04:26 PM
83. playing jacks with caltrops

84. using a sap to spank naughty children

85. lance as post-hole digger

86. portable hole as toilet

87. sphere of anhilation as waste disposal

88. kobold head as hand puppet

89. decanter of endless water as a hose
forrestfire15

04-21-06, 07:15 PM
90. grease spell on pan before cooking eggd/pancakes/grilled cheese

91. sling bullets as marballs

92. daern's instant fortress as trap

rogue places instant fortress on floor, stands back, readys action cammand word
monster walks up, rogue says "abracadabra", monster is dead on roof of tower
buddy4031

04-21-06, 10:18 PM
76. can't use the kobold and use 'kill two birds with one stone' action
sir_dwar

04-21-06, 10:32 PM
94.Culb as backscratcher
deadhel

04-22-06, 03:09 PM
its fun killing golden dragons :D
Sacred_Dreams

04-26-06, 05:53 PM
95. NEVER TRY THIS AT HOME!!!! Warp in so many twinkies from our world and stuff a blackguard (or other large enemy(if your good)) or a paladin as a scarecrow! :evillaugh
96. Also use a kobold as a club! This works!
97. Use Ice Storm as an instant storm!! the fun never ends!
May the gods have mercy on the enemies of the brass dragons!
Sacred_Dreams

01-05-07, 10:58 AM
98. Using a half-ogre as a battering ram.

99. Prepping a castle for siege... Use create food/water spells to last the whole time

100. Use a goblin as a bait. (This works in such that a goblin with a few gold coins will draw more goblins... Weirdly some of the players in my group did this.... It worked)

I thank ya for sending in your comments thanks to ya all

~Sacred_Dreams
shalitanior1018

01-10-07, 03:33 PM
a +3 electric greatsword as a backscratcher
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht

01-10-07, 03:59 PM
102. Nunchaku as, well, how can I put this without getting in trouble. Let's just say it's an extremely puerile joke that is therefore rather amusing.
AXESHAFT7

01-10-07, 04:22 PM
using a greataxe as an anchor
Sacred_Dreams

01-29-07, 11:20 AM
104. Nunchaku as a fan.